Cricketer’s family: Wife says she’d rather live with parents

Says she has filed for divorce.

LAHORE:

Muhammad Tariq – the brother of cricketer Muhammad Yousaf – had been hoping to take his wife home with him but on Monday heard that she wanted a divorce.

Tariq had filed a petition last week in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Rai Muhammad Ayub Khan Marth. He had asked the court to recover his wife from her parents’ house where he said she was being “illegally detained”. The judge had directed the Shahdara SHO police to produce her before the court after recovering her from Pitras Masih’s house.



On Monday, Tariq’s wife – who he said had converted to Islam to marry him – recorded her statement, telling the judge that she had filed a dissolution of marriage suit.

The court disposed of the petition directing that she be allowed to live with her parents.

Tariq had told the court that her family had not been happy about their marriage and had been threatening them. He said the family had told him he would be killed if he did not divorce their daughter. According to Tariq, his wife’s family had “forced” her to return home with them.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 9^th, 2013.